Staff Software Engineer

A career at Sam’s Club is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our clubs. Join us and you'll discover why our company is a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement. From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. We're driven by an intellectual curiosity that keeps us on the cutting-edge of user design and a seamless customer experience.

As a Full Stack Engineer within the Member Access Platform organization (Sams AdTech) you will be responsible to build highly performant AdTech platforms that will support our future growth in the Ads Space. MAP business is growing rapidly, and you will get to be part of the journey that supports omni-channel Ad tactics for millions of Sam's Club members as well contribute to operational efficiencies for our business team members.

About Team:

Sam's Club is our membership warehouse club, a business model that provides our members with high-quality products at prices that are unrivaled by traditional retail. Sam's Club provides a carefully curated assortment of items, as well as developing and leading technologies and services such as Scan & Go, Club Pickup, and home delivery service in select markets. Sam's Club also provides travel, auto purchasing, pharmacy, optical, hearing aid centers, tire and battery centers, and a portfolio of business operations support services.

What you'll do:

• Leads and participates in medium- to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions, gathering requested information, writing, and developing code, conducting unit testing. Communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders.
• Collaborating with project team and cross functional teams. Troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes, ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs. Interacting with project manager to provide input on project plan.
• Leads the work of other small groups of four to six engineers, including offshore associates, for assigned Engineering projects by proving pertinent documents, direction, and examples. Identifying short- and long-term solutions, providing feedback for proposed solutions. Performing design and code reviews of changes.
• Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause), engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues. Formulating an action plan, performing actions as designated in the plan. Interpreting the results to determine further action, performs root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues and completing online documentation.
• Provides support to the business by responding to user's questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies). Facilitating resolutions and leading cross-functional partnership.
• Leads the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business and user experience teams and obtaining cross-function approvals.
• Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others. Supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer, business needs and building commitment for perspectives and rationales.
• Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders. Identifying business needs, determining, and carrying out necessary processes and practices. Monitoring progress and results and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities.
• Be the champion and drive the initiatives for engineering and operational excellence.
• Create software design and architecture for next software solution. This will be your channel to communicate your ideas with rest of the team.
• Analyze competing requirements and articulate tradeoffs and lead discussions with business and development team, leading white board sessions with team.
• Creates training documentation. Oversees the tasks of less experienced programmers and stipulates system troubleshooting supports.

What you'll bring:

• 10+ years of software development experience building distributed systems
• Strong hands-on experience developing RESTful micro-services in Java and Python
• 3+ years of proven work experience designing scalable and efficient web applications using React, Javascript, CSS and HTML
• Experience in Technical Solutions Architecture and design leadership.
• Experience leading a team of Software Engineers.
• Strong Experience with near real-time stream processing( Micro-services, Spark, Flink, Storm, and Kafka Connect ) at scale
• Experience in container technologies such as Docker on Kubernetes.
• Experience designing, developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GCP technologies
• Experience leveraging third-party server side frameworks such as Sprint Boot, Django
• Experience with Relational, Document, and Distributed Databases (Cassandra, MySQL, CosmosDB, Spanner, or Dynamo)
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Manage multiple projects and prioritize tasks effectively
• Experience in ADteach a plus

About Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work:

We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:

Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.